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Paula Creamer is using caddy Brian Funk for the first time at the 2014 CP Women's Open at the London Hunt and Country Club in London Ontario on Wednesday, August 20, 2014. Her long time caddy Colin Cann is out of service with a back injury. She got to know him better during Wednesday's pro-am event.DEREK RUTTAN/ The London Free Press /QMI AGENCY

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Lydia Ko is looking to win her third Canadian Women’s Open golf championship in succession.

She’s 17 years old. The first two times she won it, she was an amateur golfer.

It’s difficult to equate the accomplishment with other sports.

Is it like a 15-year-old car racer winning the Indy 500 two years in succession?

Is it like a 16-year-old bicycle racer winning the Olympic gold medal?

Is it like a 16-year-old winning Wimbledon or the U.S. Open?

The comparison is hard to make, but what Ko has done is darn impressive.

For a youngster she’s shown remarkable toughness and few flaws in her game or emotional equilibrium.

Not even having to play with tape on her trademark glasses seems to have rattled her.

“I asked my mom to clean my glasses, in that sense I never knew she would break them,” Ko said. “She got them in Korea. She got sent four new pairs, but they are all a little different than what I had. For now I am surviving on tape and super glue. It’s been OK. We’ve been trying to tape it up again. It shows but we’ve been on TV the last two weeks with them, so what’s the difference?”

Not much obviously. Even though she’s playing with a sore wrist, and tape on her glasses, she finished third at the Wegman’s LPGA Championship last week.

While winning two national championships as a teenage amateur as Ko did is unusual, the women’s golf tour is rife with young, teenage superstars who make heads turn every weekend.

The Canadian Pacific Women’s Open has most of those stars here. They look like the average Grade 11 or 12 students you’d drop off in the morning to go to class.

That’s because that’s exactly what they should be doing.

Instead, they are tearing up golf courses, in some cases making hundreds of thousands of dollars. They look as if they don’t yet know the meaning of nerves or pressure or don’t yet comprehend that what they are doing is amazing.

“The first year it kind of came on as a surprise. The next year was kind of the same situation,” Ko said Wednesday. “I just love playing (in Canada).”

Ko is ranked No. 3 in the world. She is one of seven players on the LPGA tour that has won at least two tournaments this year. It speaks to the quality of the women’s tour and the difficulty in winning.

“It’s tough,” Ko said. “The majority of the winners are American players. It’s more than what it was in other years. It shows the LPGA is growing.”

Yet week in and week out, young women players continue to battle for titles. Ko admits to feeling pressure and nerves.

“You know when you are nervous because you know you don’t feel totally relaxed,” she said. “In situations like the last hole or when you are in the lead, that’s when you are most nervous. But I realize that when I don’t get nervous I don’t play as good. It’s kind of good nerves. I think having a little nerves is really no harm.”

Her youth has, in many ways, made her the new face for women’s golf. At 17, it’s a lot to handle.

“It doesn’t put much pressure on me,” she said. “There were other girls who started at a young age and they were superstars — for example Lexi (Thompson), Michelle (Wie), Paula (Creamer) . . . To kind of feel I’m not the youngest out here, it feels good even though I’m still the youngest one on the tour.”

There have always been great young players on the women’s tour, but never the numbers there are now.

Young players today have a strong support system and to look up to. Ko admires Annika Sorenstam, Si Ri Pak and Phil Mickelson (for his short game.)

Brooke Henderson, a 16-year-old from Smith Falls, is still an amateur but finished 10th in a major this year.

As a top Canadian she’ll feel the pressure of a nation, on top of her own pressure to win.